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when funds permit, spraying of houses with Pyrocide solution.
Sanitary works are reported in Part II under Municipality.
(b) . Agency Hospital .
The hospital was open throughout the year and was well
attended by the public. The following patients were treated *-
H Out Patient rt Department - 23,192 persons.
Admitted into the hospital - 95 persons.
Major and minor operations performed - 380.
The chief diseases were malaria, tuberculosis,
intestinal infections and eye infections.
(c) . Quarantine .
At the end of the year smallpox became somewhat serious
at Birkah, on the Batinah, and at Nakhl, in Oman. There were
several cases in Matrah and some deaths. A land quarantine
station has been opened at Kuwi, to the east of Matrah, where
local cases ana contacts are segregated, instead of at Haramil,
the sea quarantine station. A vaccinator has been daily on duty
at Ghureifa, to vaccinate persons arriving from infected zones by
land; and persons arriving by sea from Birkah have been
vaccinated by the Agency Hospital on their arrival.
3. POLITICAL SITUATION .
(a). Tribal .
(i). A squabble has been in progress at Dibah during the
whole of the year between the two clans which inhabit the two
parts of the town, the Jawasim (which have now come under the
control of kalba) and the Shihuh (who are subject to Muscat),
business has been characterized by all the usual formalities
attendant on such incidents, truces and breaches of truces,
negotiations and protraction of negotiations, and a note-worthy
absence of casualties. At the close of the year, a settlement
was made by Saiyid Ahmad bin Ibrahim, the Minister for Internal
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